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Old 04-21-2010, 02:55 AM
m28ew m28ew is offline
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Originally Posted by scififan68 View Post
JaS: If you want to experiment with 64bit mode, boot with -force64. True 64bit kernel space doesn't boot into a gui(as seen above).
Please correct me if I'm wrong

But on my AMD, by using "-force64", I can still boot into the GUI in 64-bit mode

All installed kexts (both 32 & 64-bits) were running fine,
including the sleepenabler.kext

I'm also still able to run all applications which were built using 64-bit compiler
such as: Mac's Finder, Safari, TextEdit, QuickTime, Colloquy, etc

Even the 64-bit GeekBench (www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench) gave me a better/higher score than I got in the 32-bit mode

The ONLY problem was ONLY all 32-bit apps refused to start in 64-bit mode & quit unexpectedly,
with the same repetitive errors: "Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)"
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